China Glaze Ugly Sweater Party is the base for my glitter topper or flakie manicure for the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge.

My personal pattern this week is 3D or embellished, so I’ve added some triangular silver studs. I was going to add some Christmas trees, but the glitter itself is so blingy that it detracted from the Christmas tree studs.

China Glaze Ugly Sweater Party with triangular studs

I painted Ugly Sweater Party as a glitter topper over the top of Barry M Crush. It’s very densely packed with glitter. This is just one coat and you can’t see much of the burgundy base beneath it at all. It gave much fuller coverage than I thought it would. I’ve seen it swatched on its own and it takes at least three coats to look good on its own.

China Glaze Ugly Sweater Party with triangular studs

It has holographic, pink and purpley-blue glitters in a pink translucent jelly base and is newly released as part of the Christmas 2015 Cheers! collection. I was seduced by the glitters in this collection and bought another two of them.

For this manicure I’ve used:

Base colour: two coats of Barry M Crush

Glitter: one coat of China Glaze Ugly Sweater Party

Studs: triangular silver studs

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri

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It’s lovely! Very sparkly and quite different I think in the colours. Some US or Aussie indie somewhere has probably already done it, but I tend not to buy polish from overseas as I don’t like to risk it being destroyed, so for a mainstream brand this is quite different. Hope you get it for Christmas! (Paint your nails red or dark pink on Christmas Eve, then you can just do a coat or two over the top when you receive it – and have a sparkly Christmas manicure on Christmas Day!)

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I'm Claire Kerr and I'm a UK nails blogger. I've only been addicted to nail polish since 2012. Some kind of mid-life crisis turned me from a tomboy into a girly girl!

I had been posting pics of my manicures to Facebook, really as a way of documenting them for myself, but I was filling up my timeline with the photos and most of my friends weren't interested. So I started this blog instead!